Lasting machine



W. A. SHAFER, JR

LASTING MACHINE Oct. 20, 1953 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 15, 1951 Int) en for Wag n A. Shafezfi Oct. 20, 1953 W. A. SHAFER, JR

LASTING MACHINE I5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 15, 1951 Inv ento r Wayne A. Shafez; Jr: By h' Attorney Oct. 20, 1953 w SHAFER, JR 2,655,673

LASTING MACHINE Filed Dec. 15, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 [nven for Wayne A. Shafer: J

By ht Azior'ney Patented Oct. 20, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LASTING MACHINE Application December 15, 1951, Serial No. 261,777

15 Claims. (01. 12-122) This invention relates to lasting machines, and more particularly to means for controlling toe binders as they are applied around the toe ends of welt shoes to hold the uppers in lasted positions. In one aspect, the invention provides an improvement in binder-controlling means shown in a copending application of P. E. Burby, Serial No. 174,439, filed on July 18, 1950, and it is accordingly herein disclosed as embodied in means constructed for use in the machine shown in that application. It is to be understood, however, that it is not limited to this illustrative embodiment.

The machine shown in the above-mentioned application is provided with toe-embracing wipers supported by a wiper carrier which is moved upwardly to cause the wipers to wipe the toe end of an upper heightwise of a last positioned bottom upward at a height determined by a shoe rest in engagement with the bottom face of the toe end of a welt shoe insole on the last. After the upward movement of the Wiper carrier the wipers are advanced and closed to Wipe the marginal portion of the upper inwardly over the feather of the insole and against a lip on the insole. The wipers are next partially retracted lengthwise and widthwise of the shoe and are also raised slightly to relieve their pressure on the upper, after which they are again moved inwardly and forced downwardly to apply the final pressure. In proper time relation to the movements of the wipers a binder is applied around the toe end of the shoe to hold the upper in lasted position. The binderapplying means includes grippers which grip the binder respectively at the opposite sides of the forepart of the shoe and pull it inwardly under the wipers, the binder being thus pulled fully inward against the upstanding margin of the upper when the wipers are partially retracted and raised as above described. To insure that the binder along the sides of the toe will not at this time assume too high a position against the upstanding margin of the upper by reason of the partial retractive movements of the wipers, there are provided holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the ends of the wipers and the grippers and to prevent it from springing up between the edges of the wipers and the margin of the upper when the wipers are retracted. These holddown members continue to control the binder until after staples of fine wire have been driven beyond the ends of the wipers through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole to fasten the binder to the shoe, the staples being formed and driven by stapling units which are swung downwardly from initial positions to positions determined by the shoe. The

holddown members are moved widthwise only of the shoe into and out of operative positions in response to movements of the wiper carrier heightwise of the shoe, and the height at which they are positioned is determined by connections between them and the shoe rest which, as above described, engages the bottom of the toe end of the insole.

An object of the present invention is to provide means affording increased insurance that the binder holddown members will be positioned and maintained in the best relation to the shoe heightwise thereof for the accomplishment of the object in view. To this end, in the construction herein shown, there is associated with each holddown member a finger arranged to engage the bottom of the insole in a location farther in wardly than the lip to position that member, independently of the other member, heightwise of the shoe. Each holddown member and the finger associated therewith are carried by a support which is swung downwardly by a spring in response to upward movement of the wiper carrier until the finger engages the insole, and in response also to the upward movement of the wiper carrier another spring moves the holddown men ber inwardly widthwise of the shoe relatively to the support into position to control the binder, the construction being such that the inward movement of the member is completed after its downward movement. In the return of the parts to starting positions retractive movements of each holddown member and its support are efiected by downward movement of the wiper carrier. In addition to other advantages, this construction insures that if the downward pressure of the wipers on the shoe depresses the shoe somewhat away from the shoe rest, the binder holddown members will nevertheless maintain the same relation to the shoe heightwise thereof since they will move downwardly with the shoe.

The novel features of the invention, including various novel details of construction and combinations of parts, will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and thereafter pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of a portion of the machin to which the invention is shown scale of a portion of the structure shown in Fig. 2, with a part in section on the line III-III of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 shows in front elevation the left-hand binder holddown member and portions of the left-hand stapling unit associated therewith, with the holddown member in controlling relation to the binder but with the stapling unit still in its upwardly retracted position;

Fig. 5 shows in front elevation the two binder holddown member in controlling relation to the binder at the opposite sides of the shoe and portions of the stapling units as they appear after they have been swung downwardly to the positions determined by the shoe; and

Fig. 6 is mainly a plan view, with parts in section and others broken away, showing parts at the left-hand side of the shoe as they appear at the end of the staple-driving operation.

In view of the more complete disclosure in the above-mentioned application of the construcface of the toe end of the insole farther inwardly 3 from the edge of the insole than its welt-attaching lip a when the operator presents the shoe bottom upward to the machine. These pins are secured in a block 4 which by means not herein shown is adjustable vertically but is held stationary during the operation of the machine. The shoe is further positioned lengthwise and laterally by a plate 6 which engages the bottom face of the toe end of the insole and the inner face of the lip a around the toe and is moved upward relatively to the pins 2 by engagement of the shoe therewith until the insole engages the lower ends of the pins. Substantially at the beginning of the cycle of power operations of the machine a toe rest 8 is moved upwardly to clamp the shoe against the pins.

For wiping the toe end of the upper into lasted position the machine is provided with a pair of toe-embracing wipers l0 supported by a wiper carrier l2. The wiper carrier is moved upwardly to cause the wipers, in engagement with the upper around the end and along the sides of the toe, to wipe it heightwise of the last, after which the wipers are advanced bodily lengthwise of the shoe and are closed inwardly width- Y wise of the shoe to wipe the marginal portion of the upper over the feather and against the lip a of the insole. The wipers are next partially retracted lengthwise and widthwise of the shoe and are also raised slightly to relieve their pressure on the upper heightwise of the shoe, after which they are again moved inwardly and forced downwardly to apply the final pressure to the upper. The cycle of operations of the machine is then automatically interrupted with the wipers in pressure-applying relation to the upper.

In time relation to the above-described movements of the wipers wire or other similar material suitable for an upper-holding binder is fed around the toe end of the shoe adjacent to the wipers, the portion which is to serve as the binder b is severed from the rest of the material, the ends of the binder are engaged at the opposite sides of the forepart of the shoe respectively by grippers i4, and the grippers are operated yieldingly to pull the binder inwardly under the wipers lengthwise of the shoe while being moved also inwardly widthwise of the shoe to carry the portions of the binder at the sides of the shoe toward the upper. It is not, however, until the wipers are partially retracted and raised as above described that the binder is pulled fully inward by the grippers against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole. When the wipers are thereafter again moved inwardly and forced downwardly they press the binder firmly against the upper all around the toe.

During the pause in the cycle after the above operations the binder is fastened to the shoe in locations beyond the ends of the wipers by driving staples through the upstanding margin of the upper and the lip of the insole and clinching them on the lip, one such staple being shown at s in its binder-holding position in Fig. 6. For this purpose the machine is provided with a pair of what may be termed stapling units it which form staples from fine wire and drive them respectively at the opposite sides of the forepart of the shoe. Each stapling unit is mounted at its outer end on a stud I8 for downward and upward swinging movements and is provided at its inner end with an anvil 20 arranged to engage the insole in a location farther inwardly than the lip to limit the downward swinging movement of the unit and thus to position it properly heightwise of the shoe, the anvil serving thereafter as means for clinching the staple. When the anvil first engages the insole it is spaced somewhat inwardly from the lip to insure that in its downward movement it will not engage the lip, and prior to the driving of the staple the unit is moved outwardly widthwise of the shoe to seat the anvil against the lip. For this purpose the stud it! about which the unit swings is mounted on the lower end of a link 22 which is pivotally mounted at its upper end on a casting 24 on the frame to swing in directions widthwise of the shoe, the unit bein further controlled near its inner end by another swinging link 26. The link 22 is swung to impart bodily movement in an outward direction to the stapling unit and thus to seat the anvil against the lip through the action of another link 28 which is pivotally mounted at its upper end on a stud 38 in the casting 24 {or swinging movements widthwise of the shoe, this link being pivotally connected at its lower end to a rod 32 which extends outwardly through an eye-bolt 34 mounted to turn in the link 22. A nut 36 on the outer end of the rod 32 engages one side of the eye-bolt, and between the other side thereof and an enlarged head on the rod 32 is a compression spring 38. The link 23 has therein a cam slot 40, and mounted in this cam slot is a roll 42 carried by a member 44 which is part of a downwardly movable fluid-operated piston 45, this piston by its downward movement operating the mechanism whereby the staple is driven. As the roll is thus moved downwardly it swings the link 28 in an outward direction, and this link acts through the spring 38 to swing the link 22 in the same direction and thereby to force the anvil 20 yieldingly against the inner face of the lip of the insole.

Each of the stapling units includes a throat member 46 provided with a guideway for the staple and for a staple driver 48 (Figs. 1 and 6), the throat member being moved inwardly toward the shoe prior to the driving 01 the staple. Associated with the throat member is a pair of fingers 50' and 52 arranged to extend inwardly beyond it and positioned one above the other, these fingers being mounted for swinging movements toward each other to position between them the portion of the binder which is to be engaged by the staple and to locate that portion of the binder heightwise of the shoe in exactly the right relation to the staple guideway in the throat member. The fingers 50 and 52 cooperate to provide a guideway (not shown) in alinement with the guideway in the throat member when the fingers are in their closed positions. Extending upwardly from the lower finger 52 at a short distance from its extreme inner end are two lugs 54, only one of which is shown, located at opposite sides respectively of the corresponding portion of the upper finger 59, these lugs being arranged to engage the binder held taut by the grippers I4 and to press it inwardly toward the upper. The swinging movements of the fingers toward each other are eiiected by pins 55 projecting laterally from the throat member 45 into cam slots 58 in the fingers. After the fingers have thus been closed on the binder they are moved farther inwardly into engagement with the upstanding marginal portion of the upper by engagement of the throat member with shoulders 60 on the fingers. By their engagement with the upper the fingers thus determine the limit of the inward movement of the throat member. To insure that the portion of the binder controlled by the fingers will be spaced far enough outwardly from the shoe to be located between the ends of the fingers when they are closed as above described, there is mounted on each stapling unit a binderspreading device 82 of resilient wire arranged to engage the binder in a location between the fingers and the corresponding gripper I4 to space that portion of the binder from the shoe before the fingers are moved inwardly toward the shoe.

As thus far described the machine to which the invention is shown as applied is constructed substantially as disclosed in the previously mentioned application which contains a more complete disclosure of the construction and manner of operation of the parts referred to. In order, moreover, to insure that when the wipers I are partially retracted and raised, as hereinbefore described, the binder at the sides of the toe will not spring upwardly between the wipers and the upstanding margin of the upper in response to the force applied thereto by the grippers and thus occupy too high a position when the wipers are thereafter finally closed, the machine is provided with binder holddown members 64 arranged to engage the binder near the front ends of the wipers and to hold it in those locations at the proper height relatively to the shoe. These members correspond to the members 612 shown in the previously mentioned application and are similarly provided with edges 66 convexly curved widthwise and heightwise of the shoe for engaging the binder and guiding it to its proper position adjacent to the margin of the upper. In the construction herein shown their lower binderengaging portions are curved somewhat lengthwise of the shoe, and for purposes of this invention the members are supported for downward and upward movements as well as movements widthwise of the shoe toward and from operative positions. An upwardly extending shank portion 68 of each member is secured at its upper end by a screw 10 to a slide 12 which is guided for movements widthwise of the shoe in a slot I4 formed in a block 16, the upper end of the shank portion being mounted in a recess provided in a portion of the slide which extends beyond one side of the block I6 and overlapping the side of the block to confine the slide against lateral movement in one direction. Lateral movement of the slide in the opposite direction is prevented by a plate I8 secured to the opposite side of the slide by a screw and overlapping that side of the block I6. Mounted in the block I6 and extending into a recess in the slide 12 is a spring 82 which tends to move the slide in the direction to carry the binder holddown member 64 inwardly toward the shoe. The block 16 is secured by a binding pin 84 and a nut 85 to one end of a rod 88 which is formed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and is pivotally mounted at its other end on the same stud I8 on which the stapling unit I5 at that side of the shoe is mounted, so that by swinging movements of the rod about the stud the block 16 and the binder holddown member Ed carried thereby may be swung in downward and upward directions independently of the stapling unit. To limit the downward swinging movement of the block and thus to determine the position of the binder holddown member heightwise of the shoe there is provided a finger 90 arranged to engage the insole in a location farther inwardly than its lip, an upwardly extending shank portion 92 of the finger being secured to the inner end portion of the block 16. To assist in guiding the block and the binder holddown member a portion 94 (Fig. 3) of the finger Si! extends into a slot 95 in the anvil member 25 of the stapling unit. Pivotally connected at its lower end to the block 75 is a link 98 having in its upper end portion a slot ISO into which extends a pin I92 fixed in the casting 24. Mounted in a bore in the lower portion of the link is a plunger I94 which is pressed upwardly by a spring I05 against the pin I82, the lower end of the spring bearing against the lower end portion of the link. It will thus be seen that the spring Hi5 serves, when permitted, to swing the block 16 and the binder holddown member 64 carried thereby downwardly about the stud I8 to the position determined by engagement of the finger 90 with the insole, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

The swinging movements of the two blociss i5 and the inward and outward movements of the slides I2 in the blocks are controlled by the wiper carrier ii. For this purpose flexible cables Hi3 are secured, each at one end, to a cover plate I Iii on the wiper carrier, only that cable which controls the block I6 and slide '52 in the left-hand portion of the machine being shown in the drawings. The cable extends through a guide 1 I2 and is adjustably connected at itsother end by a clamp screw H4 to a link iii? piyotally mounted at its upper end on the same stud 3%! on which the previously mentioned link 23 is mounted. A. slot I I8 in the link permits the connection between the link and the cable to be adjusted lengthwise of the link. At its lower end the link H6 is pivotally connected to one end of a bar I20 formed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the other end of the bar being pivotally mounted on a cylindrical portion of the screw '32 whereby the plate I8 is secured to the slide l2. when the parts are in their initial positions, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the wiper carrier i2 is in its lowest position and through the two cables hit? the binder holddown members 54 are held in their retracted positions widthwise and heightwise of the shoe against the resistance of the springs 02 and I06, the upward movements of the members having been limited by engagement of the pins I02 with the links 93 at the lower ends of the slots Hill. When the wiper carrier is moved upwardly to cause the wipers to wipe the upper heightwise of the last it serves through the cables to permit expansion of the springs 82 and I06. Accordingly, each spring I65 acts, in addition to the force of gravity, to swing the corresponding block 16 downwardly until the finger 90 on the block engages the insole, and the spring 82 moves the slide 12 inwardly to carry the binder holddown member into engagement with the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, as illustrated in Fig. 4,. these operations taking place prior to the action of the grippers M on the binder. The parts are so arranged and the spring are of such strength that the downward movement of each holddown member is completed prior to the completion of its inward movement widthwise of th shoe, thrs insuring that the member will not engage the margin of the upper so soon as to interfere with its full downward movement to the position determined by the engagement of the finger 95 with the insole. As the fingers are thus moved downwardly they are guided in part by the anvils of the stapling units which are at that time in their upwardly retracted positions, as illus ted in Fig. 4, these units being thereafter swung downwardly to the positions determined. by engagernent of the anvils 29 with the irsole (Fig. at the beginning of the previously mentioned. pause in the cycle. When the stapling units are moved in outward directions in the hereinbefore described to seat the anvils a" the inner face of the lip of the insole, the 16 and the fingers 90 move with them by reason of the connection of the rods 38 with the studs 1 8, the binder holddown members t l, however, remaining in engagement with th upstanding margin of the upper by reason of the action or" the springs 82 on the slides I2. These members, therefore, are eilective to maintain the portions of the binder immediately beyond the ends of the wipers in proper relation to the shoe heightwise thereof notwithstanding the partial retractive movements of the wipers prior to their final inward movements, the position of each member heightwise of the shoe being determined independently of the position of the other member by the engagement of its controlling finger Sal the insole near the sid of the shoe where the member is located. The relation of the binder holddown members to the shoe, moreover, is unaffected by any depression of the shoe away from the shoe rest pins 2 which may result from the pressure of the wipers on the shoe, since under such conditions the springs 105 will maintain the fingers 93 in contact with the insole. Increased insurance, therefore, is afforded that the portions of the binder on which the positioning fingers 59 and 52 of the stapling units act will be in proper positions to be engaged and controlled by these fingers. It will b understood that return of the holddown members to their initial positions is effected by downward movement of the wiper carrier [2 near the end of the cycle, the wiper carrier acting through the cables I98 to swing the blocks 16 upwardly against the resistance of the springs [=36 and to retract the slides 12 against the resistance of the springs 82.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a. lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a. last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond th wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pullin the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members aranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, and devices associated respectively with said different holddown members for determining the position of each of said members heightwise of the shoe independently of the other member by engagement with the shoe.

2. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements heightwise of the shoe, and devices thus movable respectively with said diiferent members into engagement with the shoe to determine the position of each of said members independently of the other heightwise of the shoe.

3. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole,

holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements heightwise of the shoe, and fingers thus movable with said members into engagement with the insole in locations farther inwardly than the lip to determine the position of each of said members independently of the other heightwise of the shoe.

4. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a shoe rest arranged to position the shoe heightwise relatively to said wipers by engagement with the bottom of the toe end of the insole, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, devices associated respectively with said different holddown members for determining the position of each of said members heightwise of the shoe independently of the other member by engagement with the shoe, and means for maintaining said devices and members in the same relation to the shoe heightwise thereof regardless of any movement of the shoe 9 heightwise away from said shoe rest by the pressure of the wipers thereon.

5. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a shoe rest arranged to position the shoe heightwise relatively to said wipers by engagement with the bottom of the toe end of the insole, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heighwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements heightwise of the shoe, devices thus movable respectively with said different members into engagement with the shoe to determine the position of each of said members independently of the other heightwise of the shoe, and spring means arranged to maintain said devices and members in the same relation to the shoe heightwise thereof regardless of any movement of the shoe heightwise away from said shoe rest by the pressure of the wipers thereon.

6. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a wiper carrier supporting said wipers and movable heightwise of the shoe to cause the wipers first to wipe the upper in that direction, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements heightwise of the shoe, devices thus movable respectively with said different members into engagement with the shoe to determine the position of each of said members independently of the other heightwise of the shoe, and spring means for thus moving said members and devices in response to movement of the wiper carrier heightwise of the shoe.

7. In a lasting machine, Wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a Welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements both heightwise and widthwise of the shoe into positions thus to control the binder, and devices mounted to move with said members heightwise only of the shoe into engagement with the shoe to position said members in that respect relatively to the shoe.

8. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements heightwise of the shoe, devices thus movable with said members into engagement with the insole to determine the positions of the members heightwise of the shoe, and means for further moving said members inwardly widthwise of the shoe relatively to said devices into positions to control the binder.

9. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, means for imparting to said holddown members positioning movements heightwise of the shoe, devices thus movable with said members into engagement with the shoe to determine the positions of the members heightwise of the shoe, and additional means for further moving said members inwardly widthwise of the shoe relatively to said devices into positions to control the binder in such time relation to their first-named movements as to complete their inward movements after they have been positioned heightwise of the shoe.

10. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, supports for said holddown members mounted for swinging movements heightwise of the shoe, devices carried by said supports for engaging the insole to determine the positions of the members heightwise of the shoe, and means for imparting to said members inward movements widthwise of the shoe relatively to said supports into positions to control the binder.

11. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, supports for said holddown members mounted for movements heightwise oi the shoe, fingers carried by said supports for engaging the insole to position said members heightwise of the shoe, springs for thus moving said supports to the positions determined by said fingers, and other springs for moving said members inwardly toward the shoe relatively to said supports into positions to control the binder.

12. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, supports for said holddown members mounted for swinging movements heightwise of the shoe, spring means for thus swinging said supports, devices carried by said supports for engaging the insole to determine the positions of the members heightwise of the shoe, and additional spring means for moving said members inwardly widthwise of the shoe relatively to said supports into positions to control the binder in such time relation to the swinging of the supports as to complete the inward movements of the members after they have been positioned heightwise of the shoe.

13. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a wiper carrier supporting said wipers and movable heightwise of the shoe to cause the wipers first to wipe the upper in that direction, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole,

holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements both heightwise and widthwise of the shoe into positions thus to control the binder,

and means for thus moving said members heightwise and widthwise of the shoe in response to movement of the wiper carrier heightwise of the shoe.

12 14. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe'end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a wiper carrier supporting said wipers and movable heightwise of the shoe to cause the wipers first to wipe the upper in that direction, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe re-- spectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, said holddown members being mounted for movements both heightwise and widthwise of the shoe into positions thus to control the binder, spring means for thus moving said members heightwise of the shoe in response to movement of the wiper carrier, and additional spring means for moving said members inwardly widthwise of the shoe in response to the same movement of the wiper carrier.

15. In a lasting machine, wipers for wiping the marginal portion of an upper around the toe end of a last inwardly over the feather and against the lip of a welt shoe insole on the last, a wiper carrier supporting said wipers and movable heightwise of the shoe to cause the wipers first to wipe the upper in that direction, grippers for gripping at the opposite sides of the shoe respectively beyond the wipers a binder extending around the toe end of the upper and for pulling the binder inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper adjacent to the lip of the insole, holddown members arranged to engage the binder in locations between the Wipers and said grippers to position it in those locations heightwise of the shoe, supports for said holddown members mounted for swinging movements heightwise of the shoe, spring means for thus swinging said supports in response to movement 01' the wiper carrier heightwise of the shoe, devices carried by said supports for engaging the insole to determine the positions of the members heightwise of the shoe, and additional spring means for moving said members inwardly widthwise of the shoe relatively to said supports into positions to control the binder in response to the same movement of the wiper carrier.

WAYNE A. SHAFER, Jn.

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